Emily Dickinson certainly practiced what she preached in "I'm Nobody." She never married, hardly ever left her home, and composed hundreds of poems but did not allow a single one to be published during her lifetime. Ironically, there is no doubt that Miss Dickinson was "somebody." She did not proclaim her name "like a Frog," but achieved fame and even a measure of immortality nevertheless. She certainly had disdain not only for the vociferously well-known, but for their admirers, whom she compared to a "bog."

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